Pierre-Yves Rochon,

Born in Saint-Nazaire in 1946, Pierre-Yves Rochon studied interior architecture at the École supérieure des beaux-arts et arts appliqués de Toulouse, graduating in 1968. After an initial period working with interior designers, he founded his Paris practice in 1979. His transformation of the Domaine des Crayères in Reims marked the beginning of his work in hospitality. In this former private residence, each room was given its own character, in keeping with the history of the place.

Over the decades, Rochon has designed the interiors of some of the world’s most celebrated hotels: the Four Seasons Hotel George V and the Shangri-La in Paris; the Savoy and the Dorchester in London; the Hôtel de Paris in Monte-Carlo; the Peninsula in Shanghai; and the Waldorf Astoria in New York. He has also worked on several of Joël Robuchon’s restaurants, including the Atelier de Joël Robuchon. Across these projects, he brings together the practical life of a space, its history and its setting. In 2025, he was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame.

For the maison Charles, Rochon first designed a lamp called Collectionneur, presented at AD Intérieurs in 2019. Four years later, that design gave rise to a collection of three models - Moderne, Classique et Colonne - each exploring a different balance between decorative heritage and contemporary lines. Alabaster forms the luminous body; brass and fabric shape the shades and detailing. On each model, the body and shade can be lit independently, allowing the light to be adjusted to suit the desired atmosphere.

Rochon avoids fixed styles and passing trends. For him, an interior finds its measure through a dialogue between the place, its history and the people who inhabit it. The Collectionneur collection brings this approach to the scale of the lamp: three interpretations of a single design, conceived to make light an integral part of the object.